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Dangote Cement

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Nigerian multinational cement manufacturer

Dangote Cement Plc is a Nigerian publicly traded multinational cement manufacturer headquartered in Lagos. The company is engaged in the manufacture, preparation, import, packaging, and distribution of cement and related products in Nigeria, and has plants or import terminals in nine other African countries.2 It was founded by Aliko Dangote.1 Its chief executive is Arvind H Patel.1 It is part of Dangote Group.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1992Founded1
  • Industrycement industry1
  • HeadquartersLagos1
  • Websitewww.dangcem.com
  • Legal formpublic company1
  • LEI029200697A0R1BH0A8353
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)3
  • Registered address1 ALFRED REWANE ROAD, 101233 Lagos, Nigeria3
  • Registered withCorporate Affairs Commission, 2087673

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Dangote cement plant Obajana Kogi state Nigeria
Photo: Abelidoko49, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons6

Dangote Cement Plc is a Nigerian publicly traded multinational cement manufacturer headquartered in Lagos. The company is engaged in the manufacture, preparation, import, packaging, and distribution of cement and related products in Nigeria, and has plants or import terminals in nine other African countries.2

Corporate structure

Dangote Cement is part of a group headed by Dangote Group. 2 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

Founded by Aliko Dangote in 1992.1

It was formerly known as Obajana Cement Plc, and changed its name to Dangote Cement Plc in July 2010. Obajana Cement Plc was incorporated in 1992. Dangote Cement Plc is a subsidiary of Dangote Group and is the largest company traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Dangote Cement listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in October 2010, and as at August 2014 accounts for 20% of the total market capitalization of the Exchange. In 2014, the Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD) purchased a $300 million stake in Dangote Cement.

Aliko Dangote has invested US$6.5 billion into the company between 2007, and 2012. Cement accounted for roughly 80 percent of Dangote Group's business as of 2011.

From Wikipedia’s article on Dangote Cement, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Leadership

Who has led Dangote Cement, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Products and brands

  • cement

Listed on Wikidata.1

The Dangote Cement plant in Obajana, Kogi, is the largest in Sub-Saharan Africa with

10.25 million tonnes per year capacity across three lines and a further 3 million tonnes per year capacity currently being built.

In 2012, the firm opened a $1 billion cement plant in Ibese, Ogun. The facility is capable of producing 6 million metric tonnes of cement per year, raising the company's total production by 40 percent at the time. The plant was installed by the Chinese construction and engineering firm Sinoma, and represents one of the largest non-oil investments in Nigeria.

The company's plant in Gboko, Benue has 3 million tonnes per year capacity with an upgrade to 4 million tonnes per year planned in 2013. A plant in Senegal along with a plant in Tanzania opened in 2015. That same year, another plant was opened in Ethiopia, which came under threat of civil unrest in 2017, and civil war in 2021.

From Wikipedia’s article on Dangote Cement, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

The management of Dangote Industries Ltd. (DIL) claims that it fully owns the Obajana Cement Plant and that all legal procedures were followed in its 2002 acquisition.

The company made this claim in a statement headed "Obajana Cement Plant: Separating Facts from Fiction" and released by Anthony Chiejina, Group Head Branding and Communications, DIL.

Because it questioned Dangote Cement's ownership of the firm, the Kogi State government closed the Obajana plant. Tax payment difficulties were also brought up by the administration.

The Obajana Cement Plant, one of the major taxpayers and the vehicle for one of the largest corporations with investments from hundreds of Nigerian and foreign investors, is regarded by the group as one of the most important elements of economic activity in the country.

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The firms claimed: "Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), pursuant to the legally binding agreement it entered into with KSG to invest in Kogi State, bought the property on which the Obajana Cement Plant is built alone in 2003, well after it had acquired the shares in the Obajana Cement business in 2002.

"After paying the required costs and compensating the landowners, DIL received three Certificates of Occupancy in its name.

"Again, well after it had purchased the shares of the Obajana Cement Company, DIL was fully responsible for the conception, design, acquisition, construction, and payment of the plant and machinery.[1]

From Wikipedia’s article on Dangote Cement, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Timeline

  1. 1992Founded Founded1

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